Gone Girl holds off The Maze Runner at UK box office

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Gone Girl has topped the UK box office for the second consecutive weekend.

The David Fincher-directed thriller, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, earned £3 million to secure first place ahead of YA adaptation The Maze Runner.

Gone Girl has now earned more than £9 million from UK cinemas alone, adding to the $130 million the movie has earned from cinemas worldwide.

Annabelle and One Direction concert film Where We Are are both new entries in the UK chart at numbers three and four respectively.

Dracula Untold rounds out the top five.

Elsewhere, Hugh Grant's new romantic comedy The Rewrite is the only other new release to enter the chart. The film earned £324,889 to come in at number nine.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Gone Girl - £3,064,545
2. (-) The Maze Runner - £2,041,229
3. (-) Annabelle - £1,939,963
4. (-) One Direction: Where We Are - £1,012,527
5. (2) Dracula Untold - £847,958
6. (3) The Equalizer - £620,025
7. (4) The Boxtrolls - £576,772
8. (5) What We Did On Our Holiday - £342,594
9. (-) The Rewrite - £324,889
10. (7) Dolphin Tale 2 - £292,472

Source: Rentrak